Critics of voter ID and other laws cracking down on voter fraud claim they're unnecessary because fraud is nonexistent. For instance, Brennan Center attorneys Michael Waldman and Justin Levitt claimed last year: "A person casting two votes risks jail time and a fine for minimal gain. Proven voter fraud, statistically, happens about as often as death by lightning strike."
That statement is as ludicrous as it is self-serving. It would be much more accurate to say that voter fraud gets caught about as often as death by lightning strike. Without voter ID, it's extremely difficult to catch the fraud since most of it occurs at the time of registration, not on election day. By the time election day rolls around it's already too late. As demonstrated below, one person can register under a variety of names. Without ID there is no way to detect when that person shows up at various polling places and gives a name that is already on the rolls. That's why the names of dead people and shut-ins are so useful to fraudsters.
Last year in Florida, for instance, as many as 53,000 dead people were found still registered to vote.
Yet not only do Democrats deny the existence of voter fraud but they claim that any attempt to maintain the integrity of the voting process amounts to "voter suppression." They are fond of accusing Republicans of engaging in the same kinds of tactics perfected by Democrats in the Jim Crow South. It's outrageous. Voter fraud is the kind of anti-democracy criminality that has been a hallmark of Democrats (how ironic!) since the early 1800s. So when it comes to contaminating the process, historically, it's the Dems who are guilty.
Meet Melowese Richardson, a Democrat poll worker in Cincinnati. She practices voter fraud and she's been busted, along with a two other operatives.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said he was pursuing charges against Russell Glassop, 75, Melowese Richardson, 59, and Sister Marguerite Kloos, 54.
A grand jury indicted Glassop and Kloos for one count of illegal voting each, a felony. Glassop and Kloos could face up to 18 months in prison if convicted.
The grand jury indicted Richardson on eight counts of illegal voting. If convicted, she faces up to 12 years in prison.
Deters said Glassop voted on behalf of his deceased wife in the 2012 presidential election. Glassop's wife requested an absentee ballot before her death but she died before the Hamilton County Board of Elections mailed out the ballots. Deters said Glassop cast an absentee ballot under his wife's name.
Kloos was accused of casting a ballot for another nun in the 2012 presidential election. Kloos's lawyer contacted Deters and said she would plead guilty and cooperate with the prosecutor's office.
Deters said Richardson was charged with eight counts of illegally voting after she cast ballots in various elections for her family members. One count charges her of voting twice in the 2012 presidential election. Deters also said Richardson has been a poll worker in Hamilton County since 1998.
There are three other cases of possible voter fraud still under investigation by the prosecutor's office, Deters said.
"This is not North Korea," Deters said in a statement announcing the indictments. "Elections are a serious business and the foundation of our democracy. In the scheme of things, individual votes may not seem important, but this could not be further from the truth. Every vote is important and every voter and candidate needs to have faith in our system. The charges today should let people know that we take this seriously."
EVERY TIME FRAUDSTERS LIKE MELOWESE RICHARDSON CAST AN ILLEGAL VOTE THEY NULLIFY THE VOTE OF AN HONEST PERSON.
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